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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Thursday, June 13, 2019
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:The Death of Jesus Bible Verse :Matthew 27:45-54 "Now from the sixth hour [noon] there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” " Message:
We have read portions of Psalm 22 corresponding to each portion of the crucifixion over the past few days. Just before the moment of death, Jesus cries out the first line of the psalm in Aramaic, the language he and the Jews of the time spoke. It is not a paraphrase, but an exact quote. We have decided that Psalm 22 is a prophecy of the crucifixion, and our confidence level reaches 100% when Christ himself chooses it for his death speech. He does not recite the entire psalm; he is still human and, as crucifixion is technically death by suffocation, he has not the breath for it.
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world”
But it is the end of the psalm, not the beginning, we should now hear, for the beginning has been acted out in real time during the previous six hours. We have reached the end of Jesus' mortal life and the end of the psalm. John recounts that Christ's final cry is, “It is finished.” (John 19:30) The English translation does not do justice to the Greek original, for it is a single word in Greek (“tetelestai”) or Aramaic, and is a one-word cry of triumph, not a simple indicative sentence. “It is accomplished” or even “Done!” would be a more accurate translation, although not as poetic. Jesus' death is indeed the end of many things, but it is also the beginning of many things: and the beginning is by far the more important aspect.
You will hear some people claim that God abandoned Jesus, turned His face away from His Son at the time of Jesus' death, because Christ had become filled with sin. This is nonsense. Jesus is God, and we are monotheists. The point of Jesus' reference to Psalm 22 lies in the end of the psalm (quoted at the top of the page).
Christ's death has enormous significance, for it signals a change in the age. The old covenant ends. The curtain of the temple separated the inner temple, where the high priest could enter only once a year, from the Holy of Holies, the chamber containing the Ark of the Covenant, where God dwelled. The curtain tears to symbolize that “God has left the room”. He will no longer have a special physical presence in the Temple. He will soon have a new presence, in the heart of all who believe in Christ, by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within our very hearts.
Meditation : Prayer : All through this day, O Lord, by the power of your quickening Spirit, let me touch the lives of others for good, whether through the word I speak, the prayer I speak, or the life I live.......Amen |
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